PowerBook G5 - 'Going to be a while'

Red herring, red herring, red herring. Please.....

Yeah this seems a little more realistic. Unfortunate, but realistic.

Good, now let's get my G5 iMac ready. Cash is burning a whole in my pocket.

Not a shocker to me. Despite some naive posts in these forums the feasability of sticking a 970, even clocked down, in that small a space is going to take a lot of figuring out.

I survived the wait for G5 desktop, which has taught me patience (but not too much), I will wait until 2004 for a G5 laptop. (please remind me of this in 12 months when i am still waiting)

I don't think water will really help. The heat still has to go somewhere. If they get really good at piping it away from the processor, that just means your lap will get that much hotter, unless they make a wind tunnel out of it.

They pretty much have to solve most of the problem at the source, and get the G5 running cooler using smaller dies, new fab techniques, etc. before it can go in a PowerBook.

I think we may just have to wait and see :(

I personally hope that they wait until at least end of 2004 to put the G5 in the PowerBook, I just bought a new 15 inch 1.25 Ghz AluBook, and if Apple releases a G5 PowerBook within 6 months of the time I got this one, I will be a little peeved.

Excuse me while it strut sitting down. This means I have been right about something Apple-related exactly -twice- this year.

This also means I have a higher accuracy record than MacWhispers!

Witness my perfection.

Just think that the longer we wait, the better the product will be.

Do you want Apple to release a overheated, flimsy, bug-ridden PowerBook G5 in less than a year or a high quality laptop in 15-16 months? I'd prefer the latter.

Originally posted by stoid
I personally hope that they wait until at least end of 2004 to put the G5 in the PowerBook, I just bought a new 15 inch 1.25 Ghz AluBook, and if Apple releases a G5 PowerBook within 6 months of the time I got this one, I will be a little peeved.

The idea that people would hope that technological progress would slow down because of their investment in current technology astonishes and angers me. Who gives a flip about your investment? You would rather the whole world sit still so you can maintain some symbolic sense that your machine is the latest and greatest.

What people like stoid don't understand is that their machines will gain symbolic power as a result of technological gains in the brand. In either case, the specs of your machine won't improve until you upgrade either to a new machine or the components of the machine you presently own.

Excuse my insensitivity, but would you please get out of the way of technological progress? It's a good thing you don't work at Apple.

([i]FWIW, I am the owner of a 15" 1.25 GHz Powerbook, replete with white spots on the display, and I cannot wait until Apple develops and ships a G5 powerbook.)